Hydra Tech Call 2015-02-04

Date: 2015-01-28

Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT

Call-In Info: 1-530-881-1400, access code 651025

Moderator: Justin Coyne (Data Curation Experts)

Notetaker:  Joe Atzberger (Stanford)

Attendees: 

• Steven Ng (Temple)

• Lakeisha Robinson (Yale)

• Esmé Cowles (UCSD)
• Collin Brittle (Virginia Tech)
• Jim Coble (Duke)
• Corey Harper (NYU)

• Mike Giarlo (Penn State)

• Glen Horton (Cincinnati)

• Jeremy Friesen (Notre Dame)
• Adam Wead (Penn St.)
• Peter Binkley (U. Alberta)
• Weiwei Shi (U. Alberta)
• Sharon Farnel (U. Alberta)
• Andrew Woods (DuraSpace)
• Joe Atzberger (Stanford)
• Justin Coyne (Data Curation Experts)

• Drew Myers (WGBH)

• Ben Armintor (Columbia)

Agenda:

1. Call for Agenda Items

2. Next Call

   1. February 17th, 2015 (one week after Code4Lib)

   2. Moderator: Jim Coble, Duke

   3. Notetaker: Jeremy Friesen, ND

3. Proposal to promote hydra-editor, hydra-derivatives, hydra-collections to projecthydra (from labs)

   • PRO: stable, 1.0+ versioned, sufia depends on it
   • CON: maintenance burden, possible clutter
   • Possible post-Code4Lib audit of gems according to formal component promotion process, production of tutorials and documentation.

4. Code4Lib events:

   1. Jeremy hosting a code retreat all day pre-conference session, not hydra or language specific

   2. Justin hosting "Dive into Hydra", with Esme.

   3. Ben intends to review tutorial content for currency and correctness

5. Post Code4Lib agenda:

   1. Jeremy proposes multiple tiers of "works model" compliance, i.e. allowing the simpler use cases to proceed without necessarily handing Stanford/UCSD complex cases.  Some consensus amongst other institutions. 

6. Hydra gem release plans, maybe review release management?

   1. Rails breakage at 4.2.0.  Ticket #64 documents.  Two pull requests pending to address.

   2. Final Active Fedora 9.0.0 release proposed and generally consented, pending "Dive Into Hydra" working.